Although she sees them safely to the cellar, Mama has to leave Lucille and Natt and go help Mr. Lyle, an elderly neighbor. She tells the children not to open the door until she comes back. But Mama doesn't come back, and Lucille must comfort Natt throughout the terrifying experience of a tornado.
Darleen Bailey Beard is coming to my school in about a week and a half and on her web site... I read that the story of "Twister" was true, but some of it was fiction (like the characters, etc.) but the idea was true: a tornado really came when she was a girl and her mom wouldn't go down in the cellar because she had just fixed her hair up and she didn't want to get her hair messed up!
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